The Lullaby Is The Spell

Babies Are Not Brought By Storks And Poets Are Not Produced By Workshops.

A Really Interesting And Happy Time Was When I First Went To Florence As A Student And Studied Italian. I Was Living In A Pensione On An Allowance Of £40 A Month, Which Was Princely. I Did A Lot Of Work And Enjoyed Myself Immensely.

Considering The Wealth Of Poetic Drama That Has Come Down To Us From The Elizabethan And Jacobean Periods, It Is Surprising That So Little Of Any Value Has Been Added Since.

My Feeling Is That Poetry Will Wither On The Vine If You Don't Regularly Come Back To The Simplest Fundamentals Of The Poem: Rhythm, Rhyme, Simple Subjects - Love, Death, War.

At Somewhere Around 10 Syllables, The English Poetic Line Is At Its Most Relaxed And Manageable.